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I agree that this is possible, and I think Rolemaster's implementation is basically this. However, no edition or variation of D&D has...

Here are contemporary trends that I see in terms of modern approaches to TTRPG mechanics: Fiction First Gaming: this was something of a...

I'm sorry, but this is why the 'dead horse' of hit points keeps being brought up. Because the assertion that the rules of D&D serve only...

In a decade of playing 5E I've literally never had a combat go that fast.

The thing about hit points is that getting hit by something sharp or heavy moving fast is, in most ttrpg settings, the single most...

That's because it was designed as a dungeon crawler. Because it had to cover that aspect of play that people would certainly use. That...

There's also the issue that attrition-based adventuring is boring. I want encounters to be (somewhat) dangerous in and of themselves...

No, this is bad design. Why wouldn't you need combat to be balanced? That doesn't make any sense. How many of the fights in LotR were...

Surely the other issue is that mandating 6 to 8 combat encounters a day is ludicrously bad design. For a dungeonbash type adventure...

Or that people just don't want to play that way (with lots of filler encounters that exist basically for attrition). One thing that...

@soviet basically the above. Although my interpretation of, Apocalypse World at least, is that it's far more 'vanilla narrativist' than...

To a point, but not every older style game assumed an extremely tight hand on the reigns there when it comes to players introducing...

I don't follow you here. :P There certainly are a few ways to slice 'play to find out", but several of the posts her are just wrong...

I feel like we're on the verge of rehashing the same points all over again. "Play to find out" is a strong signal that you as a player...